- Common Food Dye May Hold Promise in Treating Spinal Cord Injury
A common food additive that gives M&Ms and Gatorade their blue tint may offer promise for preventing the additional – and serious – secondary damage that immediately follows a traumatic injury to the spinal cord. In an article...
(Issue date: 04 August 2009)
- Team of Scientists Decoding Complete Genomic Sequences of H1N1 Virus Using Virus Isolates from Current Outbreak in Argentina
Researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health are working with Argentina’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases, the National Administration of Laboratories...
(Issue date: 04 August 2009)
- UC San Diego Engineer Provides Insights to Decades-Old DNA Squabble
A group of nanoengineers, biologists and physicists have used innovative approaches to deduce the internal structure of chromatin, a key player in DNA regulation, to reconcile a longstanding controversy in this field. This new...
(Issue date: 04 August 2009)
- Parasites ready to jump
Transposons are mobile genetic elements found in the hereditary material of humans and other organisms. They can replicate and the new copies can insert at novel sites in the genome. Because this threatens the whole organism,...
(Issue date: 04 August 2009)
- Environmental factors instruct lineage choice of blood progenitor cells
The research team led by Dr. Timm Schroeder, stem cell researcher at Helmholtz Zentrum München, has developed a new bioimaging method for observing the differentiation of hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) at the single-cell...
(Issue date: 04 August 2009)
- New pheromone helps female flies tell suitors to 'buzz off'
There she is again: the cute girl at the mall. Big eyes. Long legs. She smiles at you. You're about to make your move... but wait! What's she wearing? It's a letterman jacket, one clearly belonging to a hulking football player...
(Issue date: 28 July 2009)
- Protein That Promotes Cancer Cell Growth Identified
Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have found that the Caspase-8 protein, long known to play a major role in promoting programmed cell death (apoptosis), helps relay signals that can cause cancer cells...
(Issue date: 28 July 2009)
- Airway cells use 'tasting' mechanism to detect and clear harmful substances
The same mechanism that helps you detect bad-tasting and potentially poisonous foods may also play a role in protecting your airway from harmful substances, according to a study by scientists at the University of Iowa Roy J. and...
(Issue date: 28 July 2009)
- Neuronal survival and axonal re-growth obtained in vitro
While repair of the central nervous system has long been considered impossible, French researchers from Inserm, the CNRS and the UPMC have just developed a strategy that could promote neuronal regeneration after injury.
Repair...
(Issue date: 28 July 2009)
- OMT Announces a Breakthrough in the Development of a Novel Human Antibody Platform
Open Monoclonal Technology, Inc. (OMT), in collaboration with Sangamo BioSciences, Inc., Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, The Medical College of Wisconsin, and INSERM, have announced the creation of the first targeted knockout rats as...
(Issue date: 28 July 2009)
- Mount Sinai Researchers Find New Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment Promising
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that NIC5-15, a new Alzheimer’s drug, might be a safe and effective treatment to stabilize cognitive performance in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. The...
(Issue date: 23 July 2009)
- Elimination of river blindness feasible
The first evidence that onchocerciasis elimination is feasible with ivermectin treatment has been published. Onchocerciasis is also called river blindness because the blackfly which transmits the disease breeds in rivers; it...
(Issue date: 23 July 2009)
- New research to reduce drug side-effects
They are a group of drugs which millions of people rely on to keep pain at bay but they can have unwanted side-effects which are sometimes more serious than the original health problem. Now scientists at The University of...
(Issue date: 23 July 2009)
- Playing it safe
Max Planck researchers have succeeded for the first time in reprogramming clearly defined adult cells into pluripotent stem cells - directly and without viruses
Kinarm Ko and Hans Schöler’s team at the Max Planck Institute for...
(Issue date: 23 July 2009)
- New Method for HIV Testing Evaluated in Africa
A new technique that detects the HIV virus early and monitors its development without requiring refrigeration may make AIDS testing more accessible in sub-Saharan Africa.
According to UNAIDS, sub-Saharan Africa accounts for...
(Issue date: 23 July 2009)
- Max Planck researchers have succeeded for the first time in reprogramming clearly defined adult cells into pluripotent stem cells - directly and without viruses.
Kinarm Ko and Hans Schöler’s team at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster have succeeded for the first time in culturing a clearly defined cell type from the testis of adult mice and converting these...
(Issue date: 15 July 2009)
- Human sperm created from embryonic stem cells
Human sperm have been created using embryonic stem cells for the first time in a scientific development that will lead researchers to a better understanding of the causes of infertility.
Researchers led by Professor Karim...
(Issue date: 15 July 2009)
- Scientists track chemical changes in cells as they endure extreme conditions
How do some bacteria survive conditions that should kill them? In groundbreaking research, Berkeley Lab scientists used the Advanced Light Source to track chemical changes in individual cells as they adapt to extreme...
(Issue date: 15 July 2009)
- Methane eating microbes can use iron and manganese oxides to "breathe"
Iron and manganese compounds, in addition to sulfate, may play an important role in converting methane to carbon dioxide and eventually carbonates in the Earth's oceans, according to a team of researchers looking at anaerobic...
(Issue date: 15 July 2009)
- A Monash University study has proven a critical link between obesity and the onset of Type 2 diabetes, a discovery which could lead to the design of a drug to prevent the disease.
The team, led by Associate Professor Matthew Watt, discovered that fat cells release a novel protein called PEDF (pigment epithelium-derived factor), which triggers a chain of events and interactions that lead to development of...
(Issue date: 15 July 2009)
